Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-12-15
Our Correspondents.
A VOICE FROM IOWA.
LANSING, Iowa, Dec. 1st, 1888

l send you the following article for publ
cation. The election is over and the Re
publican party is still on top; the main
struggle i'm Iowa on the part Of the De
mocracy was to elect a sufficient number
ofsenators and representatives to defeat
and repeal our prohibitory law; but they
fell far short of the mark, and it may be
said in this respect, that they have had
their labor for their pains. And all
succeeding efforts in this direction will
prove equally 'abortive. Notwithstand-
ing the large emigration from Iowa to
Kansas, Nebraska and the territories III
the last few years-and the large defec-
ton in the Republican ranks, among our
foreign population, causing them to go
over to the Democratic party on account
of prohibition. Thank God, there are
enough people left, who are Republican
from principle, and who prefer peace, or
der and sobriety to intemperance and its
attendent evils, to hold Iowa erect and
maintain and enforce the prohibition law.
With few exceptions all the large towns
and cities in the state vote against pro-
hibition; but, fortunately, we held the
the balance of power, in this respect,
among the honest yeomanry of the country
and they will continue to vote, in the'fu
ture as they have in the past against the
encroachments of the rum power, and
prohlbitory raw will remain the guard
ian of the safety of society, and the sane
tity and the purity of the home circle.
You may safely rely upon the declara
ton; andpublish to the people of Kansas,
that Prohibition in Iowa" has come to
stay that it is part and parcel of the
Republican platform of principles and
that as such we propose to cary out the
wishes of the people as expressed in the
prohbitory law But aside from this
important matter, there are other issues
between the two dormant parties which
are of paramount Importance to the people
of Iowa and elsewhere
The issues of the rebellion are not by
any means to be considered as settled
there has always been ample room for
doubt in regard to the sincerity and 10y
atty of the Democratic party in the South
indeed there are many North of the con-
federate grounds who are in sympathy
with and are of the same political faith
and are in harmony with their Southern
bretheren, as touching their loyalty to
the established principles of our govern
ment. Recent Developments at Macon
and other portions of the ''Solid South
strengthen and confirm this opinion and
time is not yet for the abandonment of
republican principles-or turning this
government over TO the control of the yet
unreconstructed people of the South and
the tender mercies of their coadjutors and
sympathizcrs the Democracy of the
North. Nay, verify not until they cease
to blubber over tie Confederate flag, to
lament the '1ost cause-adulate and
worship the old traitor jeff DAVIS
abuse and desecrate the name and mem
ory of the immortal Lincoln, be compar-
son with the ''peticoat president" and
arch rebel of the Southern Confederacy";
nay, more, not until they are brought to
respect and cease to trample OUR flag in
the dust.-and become loyal to the prin-
ciples for which our brave boys in blue
nobly fought and who pressed them into
abject submission, will it be time for the
Republican party to cease its Gods given
mission and work. The fact is the South
is only reconstructed in form; at heart
three-quarters of the people there are
rebels still-as is evinced on almost every
gathering among them; and it behooves
Republicans and all who who desire to
see the principles and issues of the war
maintained to, rally round our flag
and contend for the principles of the Re-
publican party,-which to say the least
do not 'ibristle with treason and disloy-
atty to our government
When such men as the rebel Jackson.
who mouthed the true sentiments of the
South which were cheered and enchored
by his satellites and sent to representati-
YES abroad and when the cabinet and
all the important offices are filled by
Cleveland with men of this stamp. it is
time the masses of the people began to
wake up to the duties and necessities of
these Democratic times. 1t is time for
Republicans to close up their ranks and
stand firm and united for the maintain
ance and ascendency of Republican rule
and principles. The battle is not fought to
completion, nor will it be until the South
and their cohorts in the North are taught
that loyalty to the principles of our gov
ernmen as established by the issues of the
rebellion, is one of the cardinal and most
essential tenets and principles of a repub-
hcan form of government. This must be
maintained at all hazards even though our
brave boys In blue have again to be call
ed to the field to teach the unreconstruct-
Democracy of the South that there is still |
God in Israel X. Y. X.
A new hustle has just come into mar
ket patented by Kansan, with blow |
of and escape valve. When the wearer
sits down the air escapes up her spine,
lOosens her corset strings, and blows her
bangs into the most fashionable no;s